Veza Fernández
Alalazo
In her solo piece Alalazo, Veza Fernández will shake you to your core by dancing with her screaming voice to a magically electronic soundtrack composed by Rana Farahani (aka Fauna). The performer explores the superior force of the female* voice, reaching all the way to its very edges. This creates a both physical and emotional sound experience that involves the audience in its entirety and makes all the dramas, worlds and narratives of screaming bodies palpable for everybody.
Alalazo from the Greek ἀλαλά ( = to cheer) is the powerful cry of a single voice and a multitude of voices at the same time. Together, they go into battle, crying, cheering, resisting and thus creating a moan of ecstatic joy. ‘Alalazo’ is the voice that shamelessly forces its way out in order to drown all prejudice and processes that tried to silence it over the course of history. ‘Alalazo’ is a concert, a cathartic drama, a dance piece, an ecstatic gathering, a landscape that constantly changes. Alalazo combines many forms of expression and offers alternative forms of listening, uniting and relating.
Veza Fernández is a dance, voice, and performance artist based in Vienna. Her work deals with the realms of the poetics and politics of expression as a place of relation, imagination, and transformation. She entangles singing, writing, dancing, and speaking practices as bodily forms of study, experimentation, and performance. Her pieces are sensitive and intense, casting polyphonically a convocation of voices and presences that yearn to move and to be moved. Her background involves philology, education, theatre, music, and contemporary dance. Veza Fernández holds a master degree in choreography from DAS graduate school (Amsterdam Academy for Theatre and Dance). Her work has been shown among other venues at brut Wien, Tanzquartier Wien, Sophiensæle Berlin, Gessnerallee Zurich, de Singel Antwerp, La Casa Encendida Madrid.
www.vezafernandez.com
Credits
Choreography, practice Veza Fernández Music, composition Rana Farahani (aka Fauna) Live sound Paula Montecinos Set and costume design Sarah Sternat Cut, costume Teresa Schildgen Lighting design Christina Bergner Sound design Lukas Froschauer Production mollusca productions Outside eyes and ears Lau Lukkarila, Jamila Johnson-Small, Raoni Muzho Saleh, Jule Flierl, Paula Montecinos Trailer HEKATE film collective
A co-production by Veza Fernández, brut Wien and Verein für Expressive Angelegenheiten. With the kind support of the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs, Im_flieger, NadaLokal, DAS Graduate School, YAAL Young Artsupport Amsterdam, ACT OUT (a project by IG Freie Theaterarbeit, supported from funds of the Austrian Federal Ministry of European and International Affairs).
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Dates & Tickets
October 2023
Remaining tickets available now
brut nordwest
Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna
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